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Assessment of Gene Flow Between Gossypium Hirsutum and G G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics Early Online, published on May 25, 2017 as doi:10.1534/g3.117.041509 Assessment of gene flow between Gossypium hirsutum and G. herbaceum: evidence of unreduced gametes in the diploid progenitor. Montes E *1, Coriton O †, Eber F †, Huteau V †, Lacape JM ‡, Reinhardt C §2, Marais D §, Hofs JL **, Chèvre AM † 2, Pannetier C * ‡ 2 *: Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, F-78026 Versailles Cedex, France †: Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes, INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes I., BP35327, 35653 Le Rheu, France ‡: CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales, 34398 Montpellier, France. §: Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa ** : CIRAD, UR AIDA, Agro-écologie et Intensification Durable des cultures Annuelles, 34398 Montpellier, France. 1 present address: UMR 1349, IGEPP, INRA BP35327, 35653 Le Rheu, France 2 corresponding authors Running title Unreduced gametes in diploid cotton 1 © The Author(s) 2013. Published by the Genetics Society of America. Key words Gene flow, natural hybridization, unreduced gamete, Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium herbaceum Corresponding authors: UMR 1349, Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), BP35327, F-35653 Le Rheu, France. Email [email protected] and UMR1318, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA F-78026 Versailles, France. Email [email protected]. 2 Abstract In the framework of a gene flow assessment, we investigated the natural hybridization rate between Gossypium hirsutum (AADD genome) and G. herbaceum (AA genome). The latter species, a diploid progenitor of G. hirsutum, is spontaneously present in South Africa. Reciprocal crosses were performed without emasculation between G. herbaceum and G. hirsutum. Neither examination of the morphological characteristics nor flow cytometry analysis of the 335 plants resulting from the G. hirsutum x G. herbaceum cross showed any hybrid features. Of the 148 plants produced from the G. herbaceum x G. hirsutum cross, three showed a hybrid phenotype, and their hybrid status was confirmed by SSR markers. Analysis of DNA content by flow cytometry and morphological traits clearly showed that two of these plants were triploid (AAD). The third plant had a flow cytometry DNA content slightly higher than G. hirsutum. In addition, its morphological characteristics (plant architecture, presence and size of petal spots, leaf shape) led us to conclude that this plant was AAAD thus resulting from fertilization with an unreduced AA gamete of the female G. herbaceum parent. Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and meiotic behavior confirmed this hypothesis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description of such gametes in G. herbaceum, and it opens new avenues in breeding programs. Furthermore, this plant material could provide a useful tool for studying the expression of genes duplicated in the A and D cotton genome. 3 INTRODUCTION Assessment of gene flow from a crop to a wild relative is particularly relevant in the case of allopolyploid species, which are formed by hybridization between related species, when one of its progenitors is present in cultivated areas. In certain geographical areas, this may be the case for the cultivated tetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum, AADD, 2n=4x=52) and a wild diploid species (Gossypium herbaceum, AA, 2n=2x=26). Cultivated cotton, the most important source of natural fibre, has been the long-standing subject of a number of taxonomical studies (Watt, 1907; Hutchinson et al. 1947; Saunders, 1961; cited in Wendel et al. 2010; Fryxell, 1979, 1992). The cotton genus (Gossypium L.) includes 50 diploid species (2n=2x=26) that can be differentiated cytogenetically into eight genome groups (A-G & K), and seven allotetraploid species (2n=4x=52) (Fryxell, 1979; Fryxell, 1992; Stewart 1995, Wendel and Croon, 2003, Grover et al. 2015, Gallagher et al. 2017). Remarkably, among the four domesticated species, there are two allotetraploids (the New World tetraploids G. hirsutum and G. barbadense) and two diploids (the Old World diploids G. arboreum and G. herbaceum). The tetraploid species originated from a single polyploidization event between an A-genome diploid species and a D-genome diploid species (Wendel and Cronn, 2003). The two African-Asian A-genome cottons, G. arboreum and G. herbaceum, are the equivalent of the maternal genome donor to polyploid cotton (Wendel, 1989), although some evidence suggests that G. herbaceum may more closely resemble the A-genome donor than G. arboreum (Wendel et al. 2010). Recent results have suggested an independent domestication of these two Old World cotton species (Renny-Byfield et al. 2016). Grover et al (2015) demonstrated that this combination of a D-genome progenitor, resembling modern G. raimondii, and an A-genome progenitor, much like modern G. arboreum and G. herbaceum, occurred as a single hybridization event (genomic merger and doubling) that gave rise to all polyploid cottons. Interspecific hybridizations have been used extensively to improve yield, 4 fibre quality or other agronomic traits, and numerous studies have focused on the introgression of traits of interest from wild diploid cotton into cultivated cotton G. hirsutum (Meyer, 1974; Stewart, 1995; Mergeai, 2004, Chee et al. 2016). Colchicine doubling is an essential step in producing an improved cultivar through interspecific crossing, as the recovered triploid hybrids are sterile. Unreduced gametes have proven useful in enabling crosses between plants of different ploidy levels which otherwise often fail due to unbalanced parental contributions in the developing seed (Barcaccia et al. 2003; Carputo et al. 2003). If the plant of the lower ploidy level can be induced to produce unreduced gametes, such limitations can be overcome. This strategy has been successfully used in various species such as potato, alfalfa and manioc (reviewed in Brownfield and Kohler, 2011; Dewitte et al. 2012). The large-scale development of transgenic insect-resistant and/or herbicide-tolerant cotton has promoted studies about the ability of native diploid A or D species to produce fertile hybrids with tetraploid cotton (Stewart, 1995; Brubaker et al. 1999). In South Africa, and particularly in the KwaZulu Natal Province, where the commercialization of transgenic Bt cotton began in 1998, a wild species (G. herbaceum), one of the progenitors of G. hirsutum, is found in areas neighbouring the cultivated cotton fields. Consequently, we have undertaken a study to evaluate the likelihood of gene flow between the allotetraploid cultivated cotton (G. hirsutum) and its wild diploid relative (G. herbaceum). Transgene escape depends on the generation of fertile hybrids, and the possible selective advantage that would result in the development of weedy derivatives. In this paper, we present our analysis of natural cotton gene flow in South Africa, which furthermore provides evidence for unreduced gametes in the species G. herbaceum. 5 MATERIALS AND METHODS Plant material Reciprocal crosses were performed without emasculation between G. herbaceum Indian accession Boumi Aria (A1A1, 2n=26) and G. hirsutum (AtAtDtDt, 2n=52; lower case letter “t” referring to the “tetraploid” genome) Delta Opal RR from Deltapine, South Africa. Forty plants from each accession were maintained in individual pots in a greenhouse at Pretoria University and divided into two batches: donor plants for pollen harvest and recipient plants for hybrid production. To simulate both pollination occurring in the field and regular visits by pollinators to plants, pollen harvested from newly opened flowers was spread on the recipient flowers without emasculation two or three times between 9 and 11 am. All the subsequently produced seeds were sown (one seed per pot) in greenhouses at the Versailles Centre of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) to screen for hybrids. Seeds with a thick seed coat harvested from G. herbaceum were scraped with sandpaper to facilitate germination, and then placed on wet paper at 24°C. Germinating seeds were planted in soil in a greenhouse following radicle emergence. Morphological examinations Morphological examinations were made both at the vegetative stage (six leaves) and at the reproductive stage. Details of flower morphology were recorded. In plants that exhibited hybrid characteristics, particular attention was paid to flower size and color, and especially to the presence and intensity of red petal spots, as G. hirsutum has no spot and G. herbaceum shows large, bright red spots. 6 Pollen viability Pollen viability was assessed after Alexander dye staining (Alexander, 1969) with a 3-hour incubation period at 50°C. Several samples were taken in the greenhouse between 10 and 11 a.m. on several distinct days. Estimation of nuclear DNA amount by flow cytometry Flow cytometry analyses (Partec ploidy analyser, Munster, Germany) were performed for all progeny on leaf tissue to assess their nuclear DNA amount, as described by Eber et al. (1997). Barley leaves served as the internal reference with set value of 100. Preliminary experiments confirmed that the measure was not affected neither by leaf age or conservation delay (5 to 20 minutes) of shredded leaves in the buffer (Kit Partec, Munster, Germany). Three measurements with independent
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